It’s like that quote from The Little Prince: “You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed.”

Ok but that’s exactly my point - if your finances are so tight that you can’t afford the extra however-many hundred dollars a year it costs to live in a place that allows pet, you shouldn’t have gotten a pet in the first place. If you are sooooooo strapped for cash that you live paycheck to paycheck and a change of a…

Here are my little ones.

As someone with a new child, I still wouldn’t give up my cats. They’ve been a part of my life as long as I’ve been married, and I can’t imagine life without those annoying little balls of fluff. :)

Ok but that’s exactly my point - if your finances are so tight that you can’t afford the extra however-many hundred dollars a year it costs to live in a place that allows pet, you shouldn’t have gotten a pet in the first place. If you are sooooooo strapped for cash that you live paycheck to paycheck and a change of a…

I secured EU passports for my two kitties when I moved from Kansas to Prague. We spent two lovely years holed up in a Zizkov flat before heading home with a third cat I rescued while there. We’ve moved many times since. They scatter when I bring out the boxes...

I remember once my mom suggested a cousin temporarily take my baby while I lived in a no-cats apartment. I was like, "ARE YOU INSAAAANE? HE IS MY BABY AND WE NEED TO BE TOGETHER!!!!"

Floyd is defiant sometimes. He’s a boundary pusher, and I love it. But he was also anoxic at birth and the runt, so he’s kinda nuts from that. I am for the sick and injured animals, I love being their caretakers and nursing them back to health. Before the cats, I had another bunny named Paczki. We initially were just…

I despise ppl who treat their pets as property that can just be discarded when not wanted. My pets are my children and are members of the family for their entire life and there are NO exceptions.

So wrong when people don’t think of their pets — that they sought, brought home, and made a part of their family — as living creatures that are as worthwhile as any other. When my husband and I moved into our house, it came with two dogs. The people we bought the house from gave the old going to an apartment, can’t…

Yeah, no. This was the whole point of her comment. A pet is a commitment, not something you throw away because something happened that makes it inconvenient. If you can’t afford your pet and your rent, either don’t get a pet or live somewhere you can afford. Where is your new job that you can't take a pet? Mars?? “I…

A few years ago my mom was going on and on about how she wanted a dog because she was really jonesing for a grandkid and a dog would be the next best thing. One sunday morning I wake up to barking. I go downstairs and her and my sister are playing with a white little fuzzball on the backporch. I ask “what the hell is?”

100% this. I am currently pregnant and the number of people who have said I should get rid of my cat to make room for the baby is ridiculous. Pets are not accessories, they are a lifetime commitment.

I was relocated for work and none of the apartment buildings in my new town would rent to me and my dog, who is a ‘vicious breed’. So I lived in a crappy house I found on Craiglist in a terrifying neighborhood. It wasn’t ideal but it was the ONLY option other than quitting my job. It did not even cross my mind to…

That makes me berserk, we’ve owned three third hand cats that idiots adopted. One of ours we found starving and full of ear mites, living on landscaping bark. The vet said she was close to death when we brought her in, we fixed her up and found her a home, but she cried the whole time, so she came back to us, she's…

My first hamster was your bunny or visa versa. Sylvia. Total bitch. My fingers were always bleeding. She escaped a lot. And when I decided I wanted a second hamster she attacked him and bit him in the balls. Sylvester didn’t last super long (I am still not convinced his death was anything short of murder) but Sylvia…

I have a cat like Flopsy. ;)

I know! When Figaro came into our lives, he was six months old. He just showed up at our back door one night and moved in. Floyd was a few weeks old, and we got him as a rescue to bring out new energy in Figaro, but he was such a pain for the first several months. I loved him to pieces, don’t get me wrong, but he…

Oh, agreed. I also just don’t understand why the newer model is preferable. Yeah, a kitten or a puppy is cuter, but Jesus Christ, they are so much work. My current cat is a bit more than a year old and I CANNOT wait until some of that juvenile energy goes away a little and he becomes a calmer creature.

This is almost entirely off-topic, but this precise concept was what bothered myself so direly about the killing of Cecil the Lion.